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In a new poll of Massachusetts residents who required significant medical care during the past year, 78% of respondents said the cost of their care was a very serious or somewhat serious problem. And 63% said that the problem has gotten worse…

Amicus, or “friend of the court” briefs have been filed in record number prior to the start of oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), scheduled…

HSPH Prof. Nancy Turnbull recently wrote a post on WBUR’s CommonHealth blog about why many low-income Massachusetts residents remain uninsured. Citing data from a new report by the state’s Health Connector and the Department of Revenue, Turnbull wrote on December 13, 2011,…

Last year, Harvard School of Public Health economist William Hsiao was commissioned by the Vermont state legislature to design three options for reforming the state health care system. Hsiao, who helped design a single-payer system for Taiwan and has advised eight other…

In the first of a new bi-weekly column for Kaiser Health News, HSPH’s John McDonough analyzes President Barack Obama’s recent decision to give states more flexibility to implement the new health insurance reform law. By announcing his support of legislation introduced by…

Millions of Americans could lose insurance for periods of time under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report in Health Affairs co-authored by Benjamin Sommers, assistant professor of health policy and economics at HSPH. Under the package, Americans can move…

Harvard School of Public Health experts Leonard Marcus and Ashish Jha commented on the new bill passed by Massachusetts lawmakers on July 31, 2012 aimed at controlling health care spending in the Commonwealth, in a Boston Globe story published the following day.…

HSPH's Arnold Epstein, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management and John H. Foster professor of health policy and management, is one of 19 members appointed to the Board of Governors for the Government Accountability Office's new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research…

As the Massachusetts legislature considers ways to control health care costs in the state, inequalities in consumer medical spending need to be part of the debate, says HSPH Associate Dean Nancy Turnbull. Writing for WBUR’s CommonHealth blog, Turnbull cites a new report…

June 29, 2012 -- In a wide-ranging panel discussion at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s historic health care law ruling, experts addressed some of the biggest questions on people’s minds: How will the ruling…